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Originally Posted by Ekke
To be honest, most travellers take old or cheap bikes simply for the cost of purchasing the carnet. It certainly played a factor in my choice to take the old R100GS rather than the 1150 Adventure I had sitting in my garage at the time. I think it is unfortunate that you found out about the carnet costs so late in your research since, as you've found out, it is one of the big factors in planning for "the big trip". It affects everything from which bike to take to which countries to visit to how long you can travel to how much money to save.
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Originally Posted by BlackBeast
Take a KLR, DR650 or something cheaper than your KTM990.
Your route does sound amazing, seems a shame to change these plans. Cheap bikes can be easily found and parts and maintenace alot cheaper; hwoever I am sure you researched this already as well. 
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Well, I only have the KTM 990; and I don't have the money to buy another bike (I would never want to sell my 990 for another).
I wouldn't say that it's very late in my planning. I have been thinking about this for 6 years, my plan started to take shape about 2 years ago, and I still have 18 months until I plan to depart. I still have time to restructure, if needed, or figure out a way to get money down on a Carnet, or just cut out the most expensive countries to lower the indemnity cost.
I have run into a number of frustrating roadblocks in my research - the Darien Gap, the inability to enter Israel (if I want to enter most Middle-Eastern countries), and the inability to cheaply enter into mainland China. Now, this Carnet issue arises. All of these things seem ridiculous in this world of what are really just imaginary borders.
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